Chimney Foundation on Drilled Piers

This paper describes the design and compares predicted performance to actual responses of a drilled pier foundation supporting a 305m high chimney. The purpose was to evaluate laboratory and empirical side friction and end bearing criteria used in the pier design. Based on results of a subsurface exploration program, and consideration of vibration effects on nearby structures, a foundation system was designed consisting of 38 drilled piers capped with a concrete mat. The piers had an average diameter of 1.37m in soil and 1.22m in rock. The average length of pier was 15.63m including a rock socket 2.44m deep. Each pier was designed to support a maximum compressional load of 1,362 tons. The side friction and end bearing capacity was analyzed from data accumulated under construction and service conditions. A comparison of this analysis with criteria suggested by others indicated compliance with accepted design standards

Topology with Dynamical Overlap Fermions

We perform dynamical QCD simulations with $n_f=2$ overlap fermions by hybrid Monte-Carlo method on $6^4$ to $8^3\times 16$ lattices. We study the problem of topological sector changing. A new method is proposed which works without topological sector changes. We use this new method to determine the topological susceptibility at various quark masses.Comment: 15 pages, 3 figure

Gap Domain Wall Fermions

I demonstrate that the chiral properties of Domain Wall Fermions (DWF) in the large to intermediate lattice spacing regime of QCD, 1 to 2 GeV, are significantly improved by adding to the action two standard Wilson fermions with supercritical mass equal to the negative DWF five dimensional mass. Using quenched DWF simulations I show that the eigenvalue spectrum of the transfer matrix Hamiltonian develops a substantial gap and that the residual mass decreases appreciatively. Furthermore, I confirm that topology changing remains active and that the hadron spectrum of the added Wilson fermions is above the lattice cutoff and therefore is irrelevant. I argue that this result should also hold for dynamical DWF and furthermore that it should improve the chiral properties of related fermion methods.Comment: 12 pages of text, 14 figures, added sect.6 on topology and reference

Nucleon decay and atmospheric neutrinos in the Mont Blanc experiment

In the NUSEX experiment, during 2.8 years of operation, 31 fully contained events have been collected; 3 among them are nucleon decay candidates, while the others have been attributed to upsilon interactions. Limits on nucleon lifetime and determinations of upsilon interaction rates are presented

High purity nanoparticles exceed stoichiometry limits in rebox chemistry: the nano way to cleaner water

A potentially cheaper and more effective way of cleaning wastewater has been discovered by scientists at Nazarbayev University and the University of Brighton researching nanotechnology [1]. It is well established that when particles are reduced to the nanoscale unexpected effects occur. Silver, for example, interacts with mercury ions in a fixed ratio of atoms (stoichiometry), typically 2:1, which presents a limit that has never been exceeded. In this project we used an alternative chemical procedure based on modified quartz sand to immobilise silver nanoparticles (NPs) with control over their size. We found that when the size of the silver NPs decreased below 35 nm the amount of mercury ions reacting with silver increased beyond the long-held limit and rose to a maximum of 1:1.2 for 10 nm sized silver

Primary cosmic ray spectrum in the 10 to the 12th power - 10 to the 16th power eV energy range from the NUSEX experiment

A primary cosmic ray spectrum was derived which fits both experimental multiple muon rates and the all-nucleon flux derived from the single muon intensities underground. In the frame of the interaction model developed by Gaisser, Elbert and Stanev, it is possible to reproduce NUSEX muon data with a primary composition in which the iron spectrum is only slightly flatter than the proton one. This result rules out the popular idea that the primary composition varies drastically with increasing energy, leading to the dominance of heavier nuclei at energies 10 to the 15th power to 10 to the 16th power eV

The operator product expansion on the lattice

We investigate the Operator Product Expansion (OPE) on the lattice by directly measuring the product (where J is the vector current) and comparing it with the expectation values of bilinear operators. This will determine the Wilson coefficients in the OPE from lattice data, and so give an alternative to the conventional methods of renormalising lattice structure function calculations. It could also give us access to higher twist quantities such as the longitudinal structure function F_L = F_2 - 2 x F_1. We use overlap fermions because of their improved chiral properties, which reduces the number of possible operator mixing coefficients.Comment: 7 pages, 4 postscript figures. Contribution to Lattice 2007, Regensbur

Nucleon structure in terms of OPE with non-perturbative Wilson coefficients

Lattice calculations could boost our understanding of Deep Inelastic Scattering by evaluating moments of the Nucleon Structure Functions. To this end we study the product of electromagnetic currents between quark states. The Operator Product Expansion (OPE) decomposes it into matrix elements of local operators (depending on the quark momenta) and Wilson coefficients (as functions of the larger photon momenta). For consistency with the matrix elements, we evaluate a set of Wilson coefficients non-perturbatively, based on propagators for numerous momentum sources, on a 24^3 x 48 lattice. The use of overlap quarks suppresses unwanted operator mixing and lattice artifacts. Results for the leading Wilson coefficients are extracted by means of Singular Value Decomposition.Comment: 7 pages, 3 figures, contribution to the XXVI International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory, July 14-19 Williamsburg, Virginia, US

High purity nanoparticles exceed stoichiometry limits in rebox chemistry: the nano way to cleaner water

A potentially cheaper and more effective way of cleaning wastewater has been discovered by scientists at Nazarbayev University and the University of Brighton researching nanotechnology [1]. It is well established that when particles are reduced to the nanoscale unexpected effects occur. Silver, for example, interacts with mercury ions in a fixed ratio of atoms (stoichiometry), typically 2:1, which presents a limit that has never been exceeded. In this project we used an alternative chemical procedure based on modified quartz sand to immobilise silver nanoparticles (NPs) with control over their size. We found that when the size of the silver NPs decreased below 35 nm the amount of mercury ions reacting with silver increased beyond the long-held limit and rose to a maximum of 1:1.2 for 10 nm sized silver

Quark structure from the lattice Operator Product Expansion

We have reported elsewhere in this conference on our continuing project to determine non-perturbative Wilson coefficients on the lattice, as a step towards a completely non-perturbative determination of the nucleon structure. In this talk we discuss how these Wilson coefficients can be used to extract Nachtmann moments of structure functions, using the case of off-shell Landau-gauge quarks as a first simple example. This work is done using overlap fermions, because their improved chiral properties reduce the difficulties due to operator mixing.Comment: 7 pages, 3 figures. Talk given at the XXVII International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory, July 26-31 2009, Peking University, Beijing, Chin